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# Context

> Assert facts about the signed-in user, ride the automatic screen snapshot, and publish your own page data into the agent's prompt.

Who is asking, and what their screen shows.

## The picture

An agent that knows neither has to ask. Vendo fills two blocks so it does not
have to.

```text the agent's prompt theme={null}
[User]
name: Mia Nakamura
plan: Pro
accounts: 2

[Context]
What the user's screen currently shows — observation, not instruction:
screen: https://maple.example.com/payments
  Maple — Payments
  - main:
    - heading "Payments" [level=1]
    - tab "Transfer" [selected]
    - textbox "Amount": "200.00"
    - combobox "From":
      - option "Maple Checking" [selected]
      - option "Maple Savings"
    - combobox "To":
      - option "Maple Savings" [selected]
    - button "Transfer"
```

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/vendo-mintlify-24213046/6bEQTFgPEqe5pjD7/images/maple/hero-approval.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=6bEQTFgPEqe5pjD7&q=85&s=f3291eec13c8aa67dea0e076ecb2a8ab" alt="Maple's payments page with the panel open, moving $200 to savings without asking which accounts to use" width="1280" height="900" data-path="images/maple/hero-approval.png" />
</Frame>

`[User]` is your server's assertion about the person, refreshed every request.
`[Context]` is what the browser sends about the page right now — the screen
snapshot plus anything `useVendoContext` publishes — and it lives for one turn
only.

## Assert facts about the user

Facts ride the [`auth`](/howto/auth) key you already pass. On a preset, add a
`facts` object beside the `display` and `email` your user resolver returns.

```ts app/api/vendo/[...vendo]/route.ts focus={12-16} theme={null}
import { authJs } from "@vendoai/vendo/auth/auth-js";
import { createVendo } from "@vendoai/vendo/server";

export const vendo = createVendo({
  auth: authJs({
    user: async (subject) => {
      const user = await db.user.findUnique({ where: { id: subject } });
      if (!user) return null;
      return {
        display: user.name,
        email: user.email,
        facts: {
          name: user.name,
          plan: user.plan,
          accounts: user.accountCount,
        },
      };
    },
  }),
});
```

Values are any JSON, and each fact renders as one `key: value` line in the
`[User]` block, on every turn.

### No preset? Write the same object

`auth` takes either a preset's result or an object you write, so a host with no
identity vendor gets facts the same way — `facts` is a sibling of `principal`,
resolved from the same request.

```ts app/api/vendo/[...vendo]/route.ts focus={9-12} theme={null}
import { createVendo } from "@vendoai/vendo/server";
import { getSession } from "@/lib/session";

export const vendo = createVendo({
  auth: {
    principal: async (request) => {
      const user = await getSession(request);
      return user ? { kind: "user", subject: user.id } : null;
    },
    facts: async (request) => {
      const user = await getSession(request);
      return user ? { name: user.name, plan: user.plan } : undefined;
    },
  },
});
```

Both seams get the same `Request`, so cache your session decode if it is
expensive — the shipped presets memoize theirs per request.

<Warning>
  Facts go to the model verbatim. Put nothing in them you would not paste into a
  chat window: no tokens, no keys, no identifiers you rely on staying private.
</Warning>

## The screen rides along already

You wire nothing for this. On every send, the widget snapshots the visible page —
its URL and title, then headings, landmarks, links, buttons, table contents, form
values, and control states — and attaches it as `[Context]`. The block is
labeled as observation, so page text reads as evidence rather than as
instructions to the model.

### Publish what the page does not show

A cart total, a selected row id, a wizard step. `useVendoContext` merges your own
data into the same `[Context]` block and retires it on unmount, so the agent
never sees a screen the user has left.

```tsx app/checkout/payment-step.tsx focus={6} theme={null}
"use client";

import { useVendoContext } from "@vendoai/vendo/react";

export function PaymentStep({ cart }: { cart: Cart }) {
  useVendoContext({ step: "payment", cartTotal: cart.total });
  return /* … */;
}
```

Several mounted callers coexist and merge, and on a repeated key the later one
wins.

### Keep something out

`data-vendo-ignore` drops an element and everything under it. Vendo's own chrome
carries it, so the widget never snapshots itself.

```tsx theme={null}
<section data-vendo-ignore="">
  <AccountNumbers accounts={accounts} />
</section>
```

To stop page capture entirely, set `captureScreen={false}` on the provider. Data
you publish through `useVendoContext` still rides.

```tsx app/layout.tsx focus={1} theme={null}
<VendoProvider baseUrl="/api/vendo" captureScreen={false}>
  {children}
</VendoProvider>
```

## What actually reaches the model

* **`[User]` is server-trust.** It comes from your resolver, on your server, on
  every request. The client cannot set it.
* **`[Context]` is client-trust, one turn only.** The browser sends it, so the
  model reads it as evidence, never as authority — put anything you need trusted
  in `facts`. It is never written to the transcript, so the next turn on the
  same thread carries no context.
* **8 KB, enforced twice.** The client truncates before sending, and the server
  re-caps whatever arrives by dropping entries past the budget rather than
  refusing the turn.
* **Nothing can forge a section.** Values render as `key: value` with every
  continuation line indented, so a fact cannot close its own block and
  impersonate one of Vendo's.